New MG: Is this the MG2?

Is this a new mini MG - the MG2?

It’s being reported that SAIC are planning on launching a new mini MG – the MG2 – at the Beijing Motor Show in April

Despite it looking at one point last year as if MG – certainly in the UK – was close to biting the dust, we now know that the SAIC Roewe 550 will be made in the UK and sold throughout Europe as the MG6 in hatchback form and the MG5 as a saloon.

But now we’re getting news from China that there is a mini MG in the pipeline – the MG2 – and that this car will be turning up as soon as the Beijing Motor Show as an MG and not – as is usual for SAIC – as a Roewe which then spawns an MG.

The MG2 is said to be based on Fiat’s Punto Small Common Components and Systems (SCCS) platform which should at least give it a half-decent starting point. Frankly, we’re not exactly certain that the camouflaged picture at the top is a new MG (it looks to have a Fiat badge – not that that proves anything), but the guys over at China Car Times seem to think that’s what we see.

If the story is right, and we’re going to see the MG2 at Beijing in a month or two, we should have something a bit more concrete before long.